Once again ESPN's Monday Night Football outdrew everything on broadcast television Monday night as 21.4 million tuned in to the game between the New England Patriots and the New Orleans Saints. In New Orleans, where...

After audiences found the Friday-night time slot for Ugly Betty unattractive, the network has reportedly decided to move it to Wednesday nights at 10 00 p.m., taking over the slot being vacated by the failed...

Jay Leno -- along with NBC programming executives -- may have felt especially thankful on Thanksgiving as the latest ratings appeared to indicate that the exodus of viewers from his primetime talk show had halted...

NBC's hospital drama Mercy continued its impressive ratings rise Wednesday night as it averaged 7.8 million viewers and placed first in the 8 00 p.m. hour. One of the worst-reviewed new shows, Mercy has managed...

Some station managers and news directors at NBC affiliates are complaining that the poor performance of The Jay Leno Show at 10 00 p.m. nightly has not only lowered the ratings of their local newscasts...

Hoping to halt the continued exodus of viewers, producers of The Jay Leno Show have returned it to a format resembling Leno's Tonight show, with "signature" pieces being brought forward to the beginning of the...

Now even MSNBC.com, whose corporate sibling, NBC, made the decision to broadcast The Jay Leno Show at 10 00 p.m. each night, has joined the number of media outlets criticizing that decision. In an article...

The scandal that followed allegations that David Letterman was being blackmailed by a CBS News producer who claimed to have evidence that he had been having sexual relations with female staffers has not hurt the...

Jay Leno is taking a been-there-done-that attitude toward negative media reaction to his new 10 00 p.m. variety/talk show. "I've been through this a number of times," he told Broadcasting & Cable magazine. He said...

Mel Gibson has become a father for the eighth time.The 'Lethal Weapon' actor's girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva gave birth to a baby girl on Friday (30.10.09) and both mother and daughter are said to be doing...

A rain-soaked Game 1 of the World Series certainly didn't dampen the enthusiasm of baseball fans Wednesday night as they flocked to their TV sets to watch the Philadelphia Phillies clobber the New York Yankees...

This season, NBC is offering both the most expensive and the cheapest TV spots on network television, according to Advertising Age. The highest-priced 30-second spot averages #339,700 for Sunday Night Football, it noted. By contrast,...

In what appeared to be a direct acknowledgment that NBC's Jay Leno strategy has not succeeded, NBC Universal Entertainment Chairman Jeff Gaspin said Thursday that "while we think we need to produce economically, the goal...

ABC's Eastwick continued to be the only network program that is drawing fewer viewers than Jay Leno's on NBC. On Wednesday, Eastwick drew just 5.09 million viewers at 10 00 p.m., while Leno attracted 6.16...

CBS's long-running NCIS and its spin-off NCIS Los Angeles dealt a powerful one-two punch to their competition last week. Together with The Good Wife , they captured every half hour of primetime last Tuesday night...

For the first time in memory, winning the Nobel Peace Prize has become the subject of late-night lampooning by TV talk-show hosts and Saturday Night Live . The latest comedy attack follows an SNL sketch...

The continuously dwindling audience for the new Jay Leno Show appears to be having a domino effect on the rest of NBC's schedule, the ratings for the local newscasts that follow it, the Conan O'Brien-hosted...

NBC on Thursday canceled Southland , the TV drama that replaced long-running E.R. on its Thursday-night schedule last season. Today's (Friday) New York Times reported that six new episodes of the series had already been...